Mochi -- Shadow on the wall -- Medal and the lady: the Mary Edwards Walker story -- Nathan's legacy -- Dempsey shorts -- Mother Maggard -- Silas Soule: a forgotten hero of Sand Creek -- Theodosia: a lady lost -- Jules Bledsoe: the voice -- Charles Gates Dawes: he won the Nobel Peace Prize and wrote a song that went to the Top 40 -- Ten interesting facts about presidents and vice-presidents -- Day Doris Miller became a man -- First shots fired on December 7, 1941 -- Billie and Patches -- Sam Antonio: the last Acoma to survive -- Shoichi Yokoi: the last Japanese soldier -- Last officer to surrender -- One extraordinary event: the day they hanged an elephant -- Hartleypoole chimp incident -- Governor Ralph Carr: a man of compassion -- Interesting facts about the internment camps -- Jeannette Pickering Rankin: the lady from Montana -- Quotes from Jeannette Pickering Rankin -- Villians: Lavinia Fisher -- Footnotes in crime -- Those weren't ladies, they were pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary Read -- Pirate briefs -- Jonita -- Jóse Marti: his eloquence is still heard -- Quotes from Jóse Marti -- Daisy Anderson: "I just want people to get along with each other" -- Doctor Victor Westphall and Angel Fire.